Literary Criticism of 17th Century England

by Edward Tayler

Overview

This collection of writings by English Renaissance poets and essayists includes poems and essays by Ben Jonson, George Chapman and Samuel Daniel. Excerpts from Francis Bacon, John Milton, William Drummond, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley.

The book also surveys the origins, range and development of literary taste and practice in 16th and 17th century England. Then, as now, poets anchored their lines between the poles of tradition and inspiration, loyalty and liberty, art and truth.

Edward W. Tayler is the emeritus Lionel trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His other books include Nature and Art in the Renaissance, Milton抯 Poetry, and Donne抯 Idea of a Woman.

揟he selection is excellent?The introduction is most admirable and ?Tayler wisely is generous with explanations and identifications?His most volume supplants Sringarn抯 as THE best collection of seventeenth-century criticism.

Seventeenth-Century News

Winter 1967

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462091539
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/07/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	452
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Table of Contents

	Preface	v
	Introduction	3
	To ... Mathew Royden, Ovids Banquet of Sence [1595]	34
	To the Reader, Iliads [1609]	36
	from the Epistle Dedicatorie Odysseys [1614]	43
	A Defence of Ryme [1602?]	48
	A Fit of Rime Against Rime, Under-Woods [1603?]	76
	The Epistle, Volpone [1607]	78
	from Conversations With William Drummond [1619]	83
	To ... William Shakespeare [1623]	92
	From Timber: or, Discoveries [1610?-35?]	95
	From The Advancement of Learning [1605]	146
	Translated from De Augmentis Scientiarum [1623]	151
	Concerning Petty Poetry, A Forest of Varieties [1610-12?]	158
	From Hypercritica [1621]	168
	To ... Henery Reynolds [1627]	178
	At a Vacation Exercise [1628]	185
	translated from a Letter to Charles Diodati [1637]	187
	From The Reason of Church-Government [1642]	188
	From An Apology ... [for] Smectymnuus [1642]	194
	from Book III, Paradise Lost [1667]	196
	The Verse, Paradise Lost [1668]	198
	Of ... Tragedy, Samson Agonistes [1671]	199
	Observations on ... [the] Faery Queene [1628?]	203
	To ... Dr. Arthur Johnston [c. 1629]	215
	To Ben. Johnson [1631?]	218
	An Elegie Upon ... Dr. John Donne [1632?]	219
	To ... Master Geo. Sands [1637?]	222
	Mythomystes [1632?]	225
	"My God, Where is That Ancient Heat ..." [c. 1610]	260
	Love [II] [c. 1630?]	260
	Jordan [I] [c. 1630?]	261
	Jordan [II] [c. 1630?]	261
	A Wreath [c. 1630?]	262
	A Sessions of the Poets [1637-38?]	264
	from the Author's Preface to ... Mr. Hobbs, Discourse upon Gondibert [1650]	270
	The Answer ... to ... D'avenant's Preface, Discourse upon Gondibert [1650]	279
	The Coronet [c. 1652?]	292
	On ... Paradise Lost [1674]	293
	The Preface of the Autor, Poems [1656]	296
	Ode: of Wit [before 1656]	308
	The Muse [before 1656]	310
	From The History of the Royal-Society [1667]	316
	A Session of the Poets [1676/7]	326
	Apology for Heroique Poetry; and Poetique Licence [1677]	332
	Heads of an Answer to Rymer [1677]	344
	From An Essay concerning Preaching [1677]	353
	Upon Critics [1678?]	359
	From Art of Poetry [1680]	364
	An Essay on Translated Verse [1684]	378
	The Preface, Waller's Poems [1690]	391
	Vindication ... of Cowley and Waller [1693?]	398
	Vindication of Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost [1694]	406
	Essay Upon Unnatural Flights in Poetry [1701]	410
Appendix	Samuel Johnson on Metaphysical Wit	419
	Selected Bibliography	425
	Index	427